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Statistical Properties of Laser Light

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The Fokker-Planck Equation

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The Fokker-Planck equation has become a very useful tool for treating noise in quantum optics. In this chapter we investigate noise in a laser, which is the most important device in quantum optics. This subject together with other applications of the Fokker-Planck equation in quantum optics are already treated in a number of handbooks, books and review articles [12.1 – 13, 1.28, 4.8]. The main purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how some of the methods of Chaps. 2 – 9 can be applied to a simple laser model (one mode, adiabatic elimination of all variables with the exception of the laser field, threshold region). The following two points make it difficult but also interesting to investigate the statistical properties of laser light.

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Risken, H. (1996). Statistical Properties of Laser Light. In: The Fokker-Planck Equation. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61544-3_12

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